Mid valley city is one of the most iconic shopping mall back in the days(it still holds a significant reputation despite all the latest malls blooming up in Kuala Lumpur). Having the name of mid valley, it's literally situated right at the middle of Klang Valley, anywhere between Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya, it's situated right at the middle.
Since my bunch of ex-colleagues from previous job had moved on with our career path, our workplace is everywhere now. So, the best we can think of for a short dinner gathering, will be mid valley. That way, each of us can come to the middle ground and meetup for a dinner get together.
Amarin is one of the well known Thai Restaurant chain, their service is probably one of the better ones that I can recall. Even when I trying to make a last minute booking, the service staff is having a grin on his face like there's something on my face(oh wait... I think there's something on my face) and helped me to secure a very beautiful window view table for 6.
Unfortunately, 2 of my ex-colleagues didn't make it, so we decided not to take up extra space and gave up our window view, opted for a decent rectangular table for 4. First to came to our table is none other than the famouse deep fry egg. For your record, I never like this kind of deep fried eggs as it usually soaked with a ton of cooking oil. Mentally, it keeps reminding me of the cholesterol level, and physically it can taste quite disgusting if the excessive oil didn't drain properly. Nevertheless, Amarin did a great job in removing the excess oil, the egg remain crumbling crunch, salty and easy to go down with rice. I know, I know, @gooddream is reminding me of my diet already.
Followed by fried spring rolls. We didn't order extra, since it's more than 4 pieces, it's more than enough for the 4 of us. The spring rolls skins are properly fried, extremely crunchy. Dipped with the sweet and sour chili sauce, soon as the carrot and turnip slices blasted out from the crunchy skin, omg it's so damn juicy! I don't find the extra shrimp at the back any significant, perhaps @justinparke and family can have this without the shrimp, it will make a perfect vegan dish.
Salted egg buttermilk pan fried squid is yet another mouth watering dish we had that night. Salted egg yolk is already salty, added to the natural sweet squid rings, and the curry powder would make up the rest of the explosiveness for this plate of taste treasure.
It's been a while since I wrote Restaurant review, I don't even remember to take photos of the restaurant dinning area and it's front. One thing to highlight, they don't have a built in restroom in the restaurant. So, if half way you need to use the loo, you'll have to walk out from the restaurant and proceed to the nearby public toilet of the shopping mall. Afraid not, no entrance fee. Anyway, take notice of the generous amount of white rice being offered.
Last but not least, complete with a bowl of less spicy green curry. We Malaysian are known to be one of the spicy king where most of our taste buds are fully armoured. However, in comparison with Thai, we're only the kindergarten grades armour. When come to spicy stuff, Thai people don't play. You will rather order a less spicy version to begin with. In case you can tolerate, you can add more spicy to it. But if you ordered a bowl of kerosene, too late you can't possibly be adding water to dilute you curry right 🤣
Remember the generous amount of white rice they offered? I have already told my buddy I'm on diet, so I won't be taking too much of that white rice. You wanna guess where are the rest of the white rice goes? Since my buddy is not cooperative enough.
That mark my wonderful get together dinner with my wonderful ex-colleagues. The bull came to slightly above 200, but it's all good. We all had a blast. Food is good, service is great, my company is marvelous. I guess the only downside is, my table being the noisiest amongst all, hopefully we didn't make the restaurant get a lower rating review. Oh on an unrelated note, I finally bought a new phone, but decided to take pictures with my old Redmi 10 for all my blog use. I'm trying to separate my work stuff from here.
Almarin - Mid Valley
Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/LkGRBnimDPuP2oSKA
Address: S045, Level 2, Centre Court, Mid Valley Megamall, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Mid Valley City, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Call: +603 2709 6708
